Seal and tag therefor



Feb. 23, 1943. w. M. BROOKS 2,312,023

' SEAL AND TAG THEREFOR I Filed Dec. 12, 1940 INVENTOR v ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 23, 1943 SEAL AND TAG THEREFOR Winfred M. Brooks, West Orange, N. J assignor to E. J. Brooks Company, Newark, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application December 12, 1940, Serial No. 369,703

1 Claim.

The invention relates to a seal having foldable sections and a tag, both of sheet material, and has for its object a simple and inexpensive construction of these whereby the two can be readily associated when the seal is in open position and whereby the tag will be held securely when the seal is folded.

In the accompanying drawing the invention is disclosed in several concrete and preferred forms in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a seal such as can be used in connection with the tag;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one form of the tag;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the tag shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view of the seal and tag partly associated;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view substantially on the plane of line 5-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4 but with the tag and seal fully associated;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the seal after it has been associated with the tag and the seal has been closed;

Fig. 8 is a plan view of a modified construction of tag; and

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 4 but shows how the tag of Fig. 8 is associated with the seal.

The seals selected for illustration are disclosed in Patent No. 1,847,552 and consist, as shown 3.

in Fig.1 of this application, of a number of foldable sections, a center section I and two end-sections 2 and 3 extending in opposite directions from said center section and connected thereto by necks 4 and 5 narrower than the width of the foldable sections. In the seal as shown, a cord or element to be sealed is placed across neck 5, after which section 3 is folded over section I and, then, section 2 is folded over sections I and 3. So far as the present invention is concerned, the seal could consist merely of sections I and 2 and neck 4, and the cord could be placed across neck 4; it is nevertheless preferred to use a seal having three foldable sections.

The tag, 6, consists of a blank of material of paper, linen, Celluloid, etc. and for descriptive purposes may be said to have a main portion I and a tail portion 8. 9 indicates an aperture in said tag of a size to receive neck 4, and I0 is an opening, here a mere slit, connected with and extending from aperture 9 lengthwise of tail portion 8, to permit said neck to be introduced into said aperture. In this instance, opening I0 extends clear to the end of the tail portion. In associating the tag with the seal, the parts are positioned at an angle to each other and neck 4 is inserted through opening I0 until it reaches aperture 9 (Figs. 4 and 5;). The tag is then swung about neck 4 until tail portion 8 lies flatwise adjacent one side of center section I and main portion I lies flatwise against the other side of one end section 2 (Fig. 6) to thereby admit folding said sections together. The cord, II, or element to be sealed, is now placed across neck 5 and outer end of tail portion 8, after which the other end section 3 is folded over tail portion 8 of the tag to clasp it against center section I, and then the firstmentioned end section 2 is folded over said other end-section 3 (Fig. 1). The tag now lies partly Within and partly without the seal and is held, as is the cord, securely by the seal. The tag can, of course, bear any lettering or indication desired. From the foregoing it will also be evident that the tag could be threaded on neck 5 instead of neck 4.

In Fig. 8 is shown a modified form of the invention. I-Iere tag 6a is provided with an aperture 9a as heretofore and is provided with an opening IIl a which, in this instance, is a slot that terminates short of the end of tail portion 8a. I2 is an aperture in the tail portion at a point beyond the terminal end of opening Illa that preferably does not communicate with the latter. Aperture I2 is for the reception of a cord I3 to be enclosed within the seal, and it will be understood that this cord will be threaded through aperture I2 before the tag is associated with the seal and the operator thus has fewer parts to handle when closing the sea]. It will now be understood that when the tag. of Fig. 8 is to be associated with the seal, said tag and seal are positioned at an angle to each other and end I4 of section 2 of the seal is inserted through opening [0a until neck 4 comes within aperture 9a, after which said tag is turned about said neck as previously described and the seal is then closed in the same manner as before.

I claim:

The combination with a sheet material seal that has three foldable sections, a center section and two end-sections extending in opposite directions from said center section and connected thereto by two necks that are narrower than said sections, of a sheet material tag consisting of a main portion and a tail portion, said tag having an aperture of a size to receive within it one of said necks, and having further an opening connected with and extending from said aperture lengthwise of said tail portion to permit said neck to be introduced into said aperture, said tag to lie, before the sections of the seal are folded, with its aperture surrounding one of said necks, with its tail portion flatwise adjacent one side of said center section of the seal and with its main portion flatwise adjacent the other side of one of said end-sections of the seal, to thereby admit of folding of the other end-section of the seal over the tail portion of the tag to clasp it against said center section of the seal and to admit of folding the firstmentioned end-section of the seal over said other end-section of the seal, with said main portion of the tag lying outside said sections of the seal.

WINFRED M. BROOKS; 

